A Letter to a Very Young Lady on her Marriage

Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1954. Stk. PR 3724
L4.

During Denis Glover’s 18 year reign at Caxton Press, the literary
careers of many New Zealand writers and poets were launched or consolidated.
By late 1951, Glover had left and the press was managed by Dennis
Donovan, with Glover’s old partner Leo Bensemann, the Christchurch
based artist, musician, illustrator, and typographer. It was Bensemann
who had kept Caxton Press afloat during the war years. One deluxe
edition of this post-Glover period was Swift’s A Letter to
a Very Young Lady, limited to 125 copies and hand-set in Caslon
14 pt. The superb illustration is by Bensemann.